Cable-carrier knocker.



PATENTBD' AUG. 16, 1904.

P. A. MYERS. CABLE GAEEIE'E KNOEKEE.

APPLICATION P ILED APR. 22. 1903.

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No. 767,488. PATENTES!) AUG. le, 1904. P. A. MYERS.

CABLE CARRIER KNOGKER. APPLIUATION FILED APR. z2. 1903. No MODEL) 2 sHEBTsfsHBET 2,

IINTTED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PHILIP A. MYERS, OF ASHLAND, OHIO.

CABLE-CARRIER KNOCKER.

SPECIFICATION'formng part of Letters Patent No. 767,488, dated August 16, 1904.

Application file-l April 22, 1903.

To all Tull/0172, it muy concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-(Jarrier Knockers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hay-carriers, and particularly to a stop-block or knoeker adapted for use with carriers which are arranged to run upon cable-tracks.

The features and combination and arrangement of parts constituting my invention are described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure l is a side elevation showing the stop-block or knocker attached to the cable-track and a carrier held by said knocker. Fig. 2 is a side view of the knocker or stop-block; Fig. 3, a plan view; Fig. 4, a cross-sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view.

On many farms or ranches the cable forming the track for the carrier is supported upon derricks, over which the cable is stretched. These derricks, with the cable-track thereon, are allowed to remain from year to year where they are erected, and the farmer or ranchman iinds it advisable to have a device that he can use on one of these cable-tracks until the stack has been completed, after which the carrier and stop-block are taken off and moved to another derrick at another point of the farm or ranch. y

One feature of my invention relates to the arrangement whereby the stop-block may be readily removed from the cable-track without disturbing the cable-track or supporting-derrick in any way, and other features of the invention will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings, l is the cable-track, upon which is mounted a stop block or plate 2, having an arrow-shaped or pointed end 3 to be engaged by the locking-arms i of the carrier, which are separated by the said pointed end and which engage with stops or lugs 4L on the stop-block or knocker, whereby the carrier is held in the desired position. The knockerplate 2 is supported by a sleeve 5, which is Serial No. 153,833. (No model.)

v clamp composed of members lO and 11, held on the cable-track by means of bolts 12 passing through ears on the clamping members, the head, with its jaws, having openings at 13 to allow access to be had to the bolts and clamping members.

From the above construction it will be seen that in securing the stop-block in position upon the cable-track it is simply necessary to locate the stop-block at the desired point on the track and then clamp the members l0 and ll to the cable by means of clamping-bolts, and when thus secured in position the jaws of the head by bearing upon the cable-clam p will prevent longitudinal movement of the stopblock in relation to the cable-track, and at the same time the stop-block or knocker is entirely free to swivel around the cable, so that it will adjust itself by gravity in position with the plate 2 lowermost and in line with the locking-arms of the carrier. It will be noticed also by my construction that the stopblock and carrier will operate equally well notwithstanding the fact that the cable-tracks upon which they are successively mounted may be of diiferent diameters. The sheetmetal sleeve is of sufcient length to receive thereon both of the carrier-Wheels at the same time, as shown in Fig. l, and the carrier thus has an un yielding and inflexible sup port, which will insure the locking parts of the carrier registering properly with the stop block. This arrangement insures a uniform working of the apparatus.

In removing the stop-block it is only neeessary to remove the bolts which secure the may be allowed to remain attached to the cable, so that when the knocker is returned to this track it may be adjusted at the same IOO point thereon at which it was previously located.

The feature of having the stop-block arranged to frcelyswing is an important one. as by it the knockcr will stand immediately under the cable under any and all circumstances.

The sleeve,which is connected to the knoekcr proper, forms, in effect, a supplemental tracksection rigidly secured to the knocker proper and always bearing the same relation thereto irrespective of the liexibility of the main track or of any twisting or irregularity in the main track.

The carrier maybe provided with projections 14 to strike the bumper projection 'i5 on the block.

It will be noticed that the jaws 9 engage the projection or clamp on the track loosely in the sense that they are freely removable from the clamp as well as free to turn about the track, and by simply detaching the sleeve the knocker can be removed. The sleeve is the suspending' means, while the forks simply prevent longitudinal displacement of the knocker.

I claim as my invention l. In combination, a knocker, a sheet-mctal sleeve connected with the knocker and extending up over the track to freely swing thereon, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a h a y-carrier or like track a knocker below the track and a depending sleeve supporting the said knocker from the track, 'said sleeve forming a supplemental track-section and embracing the track loosely whereby the knocker is free to swing, said sleeve being removably secured to the knocker, substantially as described.

In combination with a track, a knocker freely suspended thereon and comprising a plate disposed below the track with lugs on its laterally-projecting edges and means at one end of the plate for holding the said knocker against longitudinal movement on the said track, substantially as described.

4. In combination, a track, a knocker, re-

movable means for freely suspending' the knocker thereon, and a projection on the track, the said knocker having a head at one end only loosely engaging the projection and holding the knocker against movement in both directions along the track said head being free .1 to be disengaged by detaching the suspending' means, substantially as described.

5. In combination, a knocker, a sleeve removably secured to the knocker and arranged to swing about the track, a clamp on the track and a head on the knocker at one end thereof loosely engaging the clamp, said knocker consisting' ofa plate extending' below and on each side of the track and having lugs on its lateral edges, substantially as described.

G. In combination with a track a knocker comprising a plate arranged below the track and extending on each side thereof with lugs on its lateral edges, said plate having also an upwardly-extending flange and a sleeve secured to the flange and extending up over the track.I substantially as described.

'7. In combination with a track a knocker comprising a plate arranged belowthe track and extending on each side thereof with lugs on its lateral edges, said plate having also an upwardly-extending flange, means at one end of the plate for connecting the same with the track, and a sleeve secured to the flange and extending up over the track, substantially as described.

8. In combination with a track a knocker comprising a plate arranged below the track and having' a lug on its lateral edge, said plate havin also an upwardly-extending ange and a sleeve connected with the flange and extending' up over the track, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP A. MYERS.

I/Vitnesses:

F. E. HARRIS, G. D. MYERs. 

